Yes you don't say if its one of the mechanical knob type or one with a nice electronic control The faults on these things tend to be in two areas. #The control logic and high power switching, or the high voltage part with its diodes etc. I'd agree that apart from being very hard to source parts, its also highly dangerous trying to fault find where such high voltages could be present. Brian
: > thanks to all. makes you wonder if a charity takes in stuff and repairs it to : > sell on? : >
: > just found a panasonic with grill from co-operative electrical for £66.99 : > which can't be bad? : : Not many charities will accept electrical item these days. : : -- : Regards, : Harry (M1BYT) (L) :
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Harry. I'm finding that more of the local charity shops are now accepting (small) electrical appliances because the shops now have access to PAT facilities. I'm pleased about this as it means that unwanted electrical appliances aren't necessarily destined for the scrap heap.
My guess is that the OP doesn't know where to find the parts nor has experience of "how to do it safely" otherwise they'd not have posted in the first place.
yes and they aren't always easy to find either. I was asked to order one a 10 amp 20mm=20 On replacing it, it blew. Apparnelty it was a known problem...
Main input fuse blowing is normally a deliberate action when the door interlock fails. You don't replace that fuse until you have found the cause of the door interlock failure, and fixed it. You would normally replace the two door microswitches too, as they have been used to crowbar the supply in order to blow the fuse, and even if they weren't the original problem, they are quite likely to be faulty or out of spec after deliberately shorting out the supply.
Indeed. And a 20mm fuse is entirely unsuitable, and the shorting resistor must be checked, and all these parts are safety critical components. Easy to do, but you do need to know how.
Yes, although I could have fixed it in my followup, I was being lazy.
Mr Pounder included an 8-bit character (pound sign). My news client assumed iso-8859-1 encoding and displayed it correctly, although Mr Pounder's news client failed to indicate what 8-bit charset he was using (and there is no News header to do so in the spec anyway).
In whisky-dave's posting which quotes the pound sign, google has very naugtily MIME encoded the body-part, which is not a valid thing to do for a News message. I presume it's done this because of the 8-bit character in the original, which it's recoded into UTF-8. This is valid in an email message, and if using an email client to read news, it will probably work OK, but MIME is not part of the News protocol. If anyone updated the protcol today, it would likely get included, but the News protocol hasn't been updated since 7-bit ASCII was the assumed norm, and so sending things like a pound sign (which doesn't exist in 7-bit ASCII) will cause news clients to do their own incompatible things, and that's when things like raw quoted-printable text (the =20 and =EF=BF=BD) may end up leaking out visibly.
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